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Chicago examiner tuesday Chicago august 21 1917 tuesday r vol xv no 208 a m bartered in ptjtp77 two p.p^tcts 'Â» Chicago elsewhere c b patent om lt.ki.ulil x vv u ujlijmfe and bdbubba thbee cents conscript wealth johnson demands caiifornian tells senate blood money must carry major bur den of conflict or people will scorn two-billion-dollar bill 1"t t ashington aug 20â€”senti l ment in the senate to-day * t leaped toward high taxation of war profits and large incomes a stirring speech by hiram johnson of california stimulated the move already under way those who coin the blood of war are those best able to pay the ex pense of war he cried those who make swollen profits out of this par ticular exigency are those who should pay we are willing to conscript the youth of this land we must have the same inexorable attitude toward money johnson's attack comes as surprise the assault of senator johnson upon the war revenue bill had not been anticipated and caught the pro ponents of the measure by surprise ha spoke to a filled chamber and his racing eloquence held all in their seats until he had concluded he said the observations i desire to sub mit upon this measure are general in character but none the less from the standpoint of some of us quite fundamental contented people must back trenches the design that i have in speak ing in general terms to this meas ure in voicing my opposition to the rates that are in this measure pre scribed under certain captions is that ultimately we may do that which is best for all the people of the nation and that behind the line of trenches which will be ours in the future we may have a con tented people a people not irritated by any sense of injustice or in equality in taxation and that final ly we may not only conscript ttte blood of this nation but we may conscript the part of the wealth of this nation that la coined out of its blood nation has greatest task in all history it is with this idea in view that i have the temerity to speak upon a measure to which the fi nance committee . ; of the senate have devoted so m%ch time so much effort so much conscientious labor and on which they have done in deed such very gre,at work i recognize mr president just as all senators and just as all our people recognize to-day the her culean and stupendous task which we have undertaken â€” a task that in all the history of this world never has been undertaken before not only do we the great de mocracy of the world go forth to fight the greatest military power on earth but we have undertaken as well to finance in part every nation at war with this great mili tary power we have undertaken to to sup ply foods and fuels and munitions to all of those at war with the teutonic powers we have undertaken by embargo the eyes of the army by louis raemaekers copyright 3917 bj louis bamixeknu raemaekers the greatest world war cartoonist comes to the united states to work for the Chicago examiner burning airplane falls killing two buffalo n y aug 20 â€” almost roasted in the cockpit of their aero plane richard e mead of boston and charles a wall jr of buffalo were killed to-day when the machine afire dropped 400 feet at the curtiss flying field they were making tests for the government of a new artillery spotting bomb dayton o aug 20 â€” r l hayes united states student-aviator at the wilbur wright school here was killed to-day when he lost his balance and fell on a rapidly revolving propeller teuton navy to fight says admiral hibbert an american port aug 20 â€” rear admiral hibbert of the british navy arrived here to-day on an ad miralty mission he declared the war would not end without a great naval battle and he said he hopeil the kaiser's recent visit to wilhelm3 haven foreshadowed such an evont in the near future puqh assigns 1,000,000 pier lease to eastern man leaseholds of the fugh terminal warehouse company and of the pugh stores company controlled by com modore james a pugh have been assigned to frederick j hiliman public accountant of springfield mass as the property is subject to in cumbrance of 1,000,000 only a nomi nal sum is given in the transfers the leases apply to 1,200 feet of frontage on east Illinois street north of the river improved v/ith three six-story warehouse buildings it was suggested last night that the pugh stores will be operated under a reorganized company and that the business will be continued under the direction of the eastern interests with mr pugh as directing manager receivership were filed several months ago by stock holders these suits were settled and withdrawn more recently cred itors have filed action for sums up to 1,000 when the original stock in th<5 con cern was sold to the public several years ago mayor william hale thompson and fred lundin were mentioned as having affiliation prince albert has gastritis quits ship london aug 20 an attack of gastritis has forced prince albert second son of king george to leave his ship for a course of treatment he will not be able to attend to duties for several months he has suffered with the malady for sev eral years wekerle is named hungarian premier amsterdam aug 20 â€” dr alex ander wekerle has been named to succeed count esterhazy as premier of hungary according to the semi official german news agency dr wekerle served from april 1906 to january 1910 as premier and minis ter of finance count esterhazy is believed to have resigned because of a clash with count karolyi presi dent of the hungarian independence party over foreign policies gorgas appoints 2 Chicago doctors washington aug 20 the ap pointment of two Chicago men to places in a new department for mil itary orthopedics treatement of in juries to the joints and cases where artificial limbs are required was an nounced by surgeon general gor gfcs they are dr john l porter and john e wilder a manufacturer u s weather forecast Chicago and vicinity â€” gener ally fair and cooler tuesday wednes day partly cloudy and warmer mod erate northeast to east winds tue dn becoming southerly wednes day temperature iff twenty-four hours ending 2 a m . highest 85 lowest 70 mean 78 normal temperature for the day 71 i'l edpitation for twenty-four hours none relative humidity 7 Â«. m 70 2 p m 64 7 p m 88 barometric pressure reduced to sea level 7 a m 29.m8 7 p m 20.91 sunrise to-day s:o sunset 0:42 moon set 8r01 v m tutsday hungary opens jails due to food shortage copenhagen aug 20 prisoners in hungarian jails have been ordered released by the minister of justice because of food shortage and arrests are be ing reduced to serious cases ac cording to reports received here ; the order affects criminals serving terms of less than two years they are to be given in definite leave if their social position has not been broken in some special cases prisoners serving longer terms also will be released wilson plans to exempt fathers modification of draft regulations expected to affect men with dependent children - . washington aug 2e president wilson is to modify the draft regru ! lations as applied to married men this was forecast to-day by a source close to the white house the j president's idea of how the law i should be carried out will be made j plain before the week ends men with dependent children will be exempt in every case unless they are men of wealth at present under frovost marshal general crowder's interpretation such men are not ex empt if the parents either of them selves or of the wife are able to take care of her and the children it is maintained the present inter pretation creats class distinction laboring men would be exempt in practically every instance while business and professional men would bear the brunt of the rule excuse business men married men owning their own business or engaged in professions such as doctors lawyers architects etc probably will receive exemp tion if these men were removod from their homes and forced to re build their business it is considered an injustice provost marshal general crowder to-day ordered the first 30 per cent of the draft here to entrain for training september 5 as scheduled but the second and third increments will not be called from their homes until september 19 and october ?., instead of september 15 and 26 as previously scheduled writ is denied in denying a writ of habeas corpus to albert jones and john story of richmond county georgia under ar rest for trying to evade the draft law judge speer of the united states district court held congress has power under the constitution to sum mon for military service at home or abroad every citizen of the united states cuban brings only 150 trunks on brief visit new york aug 20 â€” manuel luciano diaz a cuban copper mag nate arrived here to-day with his son two daughters and the two children of one of the daughters as mr diaz intends to remain only a few days he says he brought only 160 trunks suit cases and bonnet | boxes the party has twenty-two rooms reserved at a fifth avenue ho tel zeppelin's nephew certified in draft atlantic city aug 20 â€” eugene n apel a grandnephew of the late count zeppelin inventor of the ger man dirigible has been certified as physically fit for military service apel lives at ventnor a fashionable college city adjoining this resort apel's mother is countess schauwers allies take 14,000 in 3 drives wilson to act alone on peace bid kljlut pieiif mmm mxa wmk pas pav m p reich _______ i i basis of proposal inacceptable says bakhmetieff allies to rt iterate demand for indemni-j ties washington aug 20 trend of official opinion at the state department is that an acceptance of pope benedict's initial ! peace terms by the teutonic powers would constitute an_admission of de feat any settlement based on the pope's suggestions it was said would niean for the german people a war without justification and peace without com pensation the view expressed unofficially was that if the proposal is rejected by this government any possible hope of dividing the german people from their war-crazed leaders woul-j have to be dropped wilson to send separate reply it was reported to-day that the reply from the united states to the vatican will be written by president wilson himself it will be a docu ment entirely distinct from the one prepared by the entente allies al though some of the aims may be the same democratization of germany is said to be in the president's opinion the real solution of all of the many things over which the allies may quarrel the one exception to the rule against interfering in european politics to-day attributed to the ad ministration is the restoration of belgium this exception is made not be cause of interest in belgium herself â€” that interest is sentimental and not political or diplomatic â€” but because the violation of belgium was the most striking instance of prussian militarism's disregard for all law lansing admits exchange of views secretary of state lansing ad mitted to-day that this government is informally exchanging views with the entente nations no other author itative information was available ex cept the statement that there would not be an immediate reply the impression is growing that great britain will reply for most of the entente powers as was the case in the allies answer to president wilson's proposal to the belligerents to state their peace terms belgium replied in a supplementary note and it is likely she will make a separate reply to the pope as well russia probably will be compelled to reply separately because of in italians open terrific offensive on front of 100 miles and capture 2,500 austrians in first day's battle * , ~ canadians make new ga ; ns around lens and fall of great . coal center is believed \ matter of days i t ondon aug 20 three allied * nations the fren !>. fhe ital '**-* ians and the english co-or ! dinated their forces in a stupendous j drive against the teutonic position i to-day fourteen thousand six hun i dred teutons have been captured in battles at verdun the french struck on a fifteen-mile front a blow described â€¢ as at once stupendous and tragic both summits of dead man's hill won by the crown prince at the sac rifice of countless lives fell into the hands of general petain 4,000 prisoners captured by french many other positions were also taken together with 4,000 unwounded prisoners general cadorna's troops delivered a tremendous drive agains ti.e aus trians on a hundred-mile front from \ plavati to the sea the capture of 7,600 prisoners with the italians pressing on is announced the british and canadians struck northwest of lens that city ia nearly surrounded and its fall is im minent in flanders more than 3,000 ger mans have been captured by general haig in the last seventy-two hours general petain completely turned the tables on the german crowu prince avocourt and corbeaux j woods are captured some of the coveted objectives on the left bank of the meuse that fell into french hands are avocourt wood corbeaux od and riumieraa on the right bank thev captured ta lon ridge champneuvllle hill 1*4 mormont farm and hill 240 also they penetrated to strategic positions in the bois de pusz and the bois d chaune a striking feature of the attack which followed a tremendous shell fire for a week from large parks of the heaviest french artillery was th employment of the air service as a definite arm of offense armed with machine guns the aviators flew low and directed a galling fire at masse _ of german troops as they moved fop ward to the support of the front lines airmen demoralize germans from rear the work of the airmen as an at tacking force was brilliantly success ful in addition to demoralizing tho german rear they proved later of i portant service in helping the infan try to repulse counter attacks 4 incidentally they brought low eleven german airplanes in the thic â€¢ continued on 2d page 7th column ttt â€” : â€” i^r-z â€” trzz â€” continued on 4th page 2d column j r ) ( )' s read r~j motor car bargains in the ex aminer want ad columns and you'll experience no trouble in setting the high-grade car you *â€”" want at the price you can af _ ' ~~"~ ford to pay , good pay }^ nÂ»nd steady employment are of â– â€” > fered you to-day through help wanted column in the exam uiner's classified section tu.a to the want ad pages now and __ select at once the place thai < , suits you and your ability too

Chicago examiner tuesday Chicago august 21 1917 tuesday r vol xv no 208 a m bartered in ptjtp77 two p.p^tcts 'Â» Chicago elsewhere c b patent om lt.ki.ulil x vv u ujlijmfe and bdbubba thbee cents conscript wealth johnson demands caiifornian tells senate blood money must carry major bur den of conflict or people will scorn two-billion-dollar bill 1"t t ashington aug 20â€”senti l ment in the senate to-day * t leaped toward high taxation of war profits and large incomes a stirring speech by hiram johnson of california stimulated the move already under way those who coin the blood of war are those best able to pay the ex pense of war he cried those who make swollen profits out of this par ticular exigency are those who should pay we are willing to conscript the youth of this land we must have the same inexorable attitude toward money johnson's attack comes as surprise the assault of senator johnson upon the war revenue bill had not been anticipated and caught the pro ponents of the measure by surprise ha spoke to a filled chamber and his racing eloquence held all in their seats until he had concluded he said the observations i desire to sub mit upon this measure are general in character but none the less from the standpoint of some of us quite fundamental contented people must back trenches the design that i have in speak ing in general terms to this meas ure in voicing my opposition to the rates that are in this measure pre scribed under certain captions is that ultimately we may do that which is best for all the people of the nation and that behind the line of trenches which will be ours in the future we may have a con tented people a people not irritated by any sense of injustice or in equality in taxation and that final ly we may not only conscript ttte blood of this nation but we may conscript the part of the wealth of this nation that la coined out of its blood nation has greatest task in all history it is with this idea in view that i have the temerity to speak upon a measure to which the fi nance committee . ; of the senate have devoted so m%ch time so much effort so much conscientious labor and on which they have done in deed such very gre,at work i recognize mr president just as all senators and just as all our people recognize to-day the her culean and stupendous task which we have undertaken â€” a task that in all the history of this world never has been undertaken before not only do we the great de mocracy of the world go forth to fight the greatest military power on earth but we have undertaken as well to finance in part every nation at war with this great mili tary power we have undertaken to to sup ply foods and fuels and munitions to all of those at war with the teutonic powers we have undertaken by embargo the eyes of the army by louis raemaekers copyright 3917 bj louis bamixeknu raemaekers the greatest world war cartoonist comes to the united states to work for the Chicago examiner burning airplane falls killing two buffalo n y aug 20 â€” almost roasted in the cockpit of their aero plane richard e mead of boston and charles a wall jr of buffalo were killed to-day when the machine afire dropped 400 feet at the curtiss flying field they were making tests for the government of a new artillery spotting bomb dayton o aug 20 â€” r l hayes united states student-aviator at the wilbur wright school here was killed to-day when he lost his balance and fell on a rapidly revolving propeller teuton navy to fight says admiral hibbert an american port aug 20 â€” rear admiral hibbert of the british navy arrived here to-day on an ad miralty mission he declared the war would not end without a great naval battle and he said he hopeil the kaiser's recent visit to wilhelm3 haven foreshadowed such an evont in the near future puqh assigns 1,000,000 pier lease to eastern man leaseholds of the fugh terminal warehouse company and of the pugh stores company controlled by com modore james a pugh have been assigned to frederick j hiliman public accountant of springfield mass as the property is subject to in cumbrance of 1,000,000 only a nomi nal sum is given in the transfers the leases apply to 1,200 feet of frontage on east Illinois street north of the river improved v/ith three six-story warehouse buildings it was suggested last night that the pugh stores will be operated under a reorganized company and that the business will be continued under the direction of the eastern interests with mr pugh as directing manager receivership were filed several months ago by stock holders these suits were settled and withdrawn more recently cred itors have filed action for sums up to 1,000 when the original stock in th<5 con cern was sold to the public several years ago mayor william hale thompson and fred lundin were mentioned as having affiliation prince albert has gastritis quits ship london aug 20 an attack of gastritis has forced prince albert second son of king george to leave his ship for a course of treatment he will not be able to attend to duties for several months he has suffered with the malady for sev eral years wekerle is named hungarian premier amsterdam aug 20 â€” dr alex ander wekerle has been named to succeed count esterhazy as premier of hungary according to the semi official german news agency dr wekerle served from april 1906 to january 1910 as premier and minis ter of finance count esterhazy is believed to have resigned because of a clash with count karolyi presi dent of the hungarian independence party over foreign policies gorgas appoints 2 Chicago doctors washington aug 20 the ap pointment of two Chicago men to places in a new department for mil itary orthopedics treatement of in juries to the joints and cases where artificial limbs are required was an nounced by surgeon general gor gfcs they are dr john l porter and john e wilder a manufacturer u s weather forecast Chicago and vicinity â€” gener ally fair and cooler tuesday wednes day partly cloudy and warmer mod erate northeast to east winds tue dn becoming southerly wednes day temperature iff twenty-four hours ending 2 a m . highest 85 lowest 70 mean 78 normal temperature for the day 71 i'l edpitation for twenty-four hours none relative humidity 7 Â«. m 70 2 p m 64 7 p m 88 barometric pressure reduced to sea level 7 a m 29.m8 7 p m 20.91 sunrise to-day s:o sunset 0:42 moon set 8r01 v m tutsday hungary opens jails due to food shortage copenhagen aug 20 prisoners in hungarian jails have been ordered released by the minister of justice because of food shortage and arrests are be ing reduced to serious cases ac cording to reports received here ; the order affects criminals serving terms of less than two years they are to be given in definite leave if their social position has not been broken in some special cases prisoners serving longer terms also will be released wilson plans to exempt fathers modification of draft regulations expected to affect men with dependent children - . washington aug 2e president wilson is to modify the draft regru ! lations as applied to married men this was forecast to-day by a source close to the white house the j president's idea of how the law i should be carried out will be made j plain before the week ends men with dependent children will be exempt in every case unless they are men of wealth at present under frovost marshal general crowder's interpretation such men are not ex empt if the parents either of them selves or of the wife are able to take care of her and the children it is maintained the present inter pretation creats class distinction laboring men would be exempt in practically every instance while business and professional men would bear the brunt of the rule excuse business men married men owning their own business or engaged in professions such as doctors lawyers architects etc probably will receive exemp tion if these men were removod from their homes and forced to re build their business it is considered an injustice provost marshal general crowder to-day ordered the first 30 per cent of the draft here to entrain for training september 5 as scheduled but the second and third increments will not be called from their homes until september 19 and october ?., instead of september 15 and 26 as previously scheduled writ is denied in denying a writ of habeas corpus to albert jones and john story of richmond county georgia under ar rest for trying to evade the draft law judge speer of the united states district court held congress has power under the constitution to sum mon for military service at home or abroad every citizen of the united states cuban brings only 150 trunks on brief visit new york aug 20 â€” manuel luciano diaz a cuban copper mag nate arrived here to-day with his son two daughters and the two children of one of the daughters as mr diaz intends to remain only a few days he says he brought only 160 trunks suit cases and bonnet | boxes the party has twenty-two rooms reserved at a fifth avenue ho tel zeppelin's nephew certified in draft atlantic city aug 20 â€” eugene n apel a grandnephew of the late count zeppelin inventor of the ger man dirigible has been certified as physically fit for military service apel lives at ventnor a fashionable college city adjoining this resort apel's mother is countess schauwers allies take 14,000 in 3 drives wilson to act alone on peace bid kljlut pieiif mmm mxa wmk pas pav m p reich _______ i i basis of proposal inacceptable says bakhmetieff allies to rt iterate demand for indemni-j ties washington aug 20 trend of official opinion at the state department is that an acceptance of pope benedict's initial ! peace terms by the teutonic powers would constitute an_admission of de feat any settlement based on the pope's suggestions it was said would niean for the german people a war without justification and peace without com pensation the view expressed unofficially was that if the proposal is rejected by this government any possible hope of dividing the german people from their war-crazed leaders woul-j have to be dropped wilson to send separate reply it was reported to-day that the reply from the united states to the vatican will be written by president wilson himself it will be a docu ment entirely distinct from the one prepared by the entente allies al though some of the aims may be the same democratization of germany is said to be in the president's opinion the real solution of all of the many things over which the allies may quarrel the one exception to the rule against interfering in european politics to-day attributed to the ad ministration is the restoration of belgium this exception is made not be cause of interest in belgium herself â€” that interest is sentimental and not political or diplomatic â€” but because the violation of belgium was the most striking instance of prussian militarism's disregard for all law lansing admits exchange of views secretary of state lansing ad mitted to-day that this government is informally exchanging views with the entente nations no other author itative information was available ex cept the statement that there would not be an immediate reply the impression is growing that great britain will reply for most of the entente powers as was the case in the allies answer to president wilson's proposal to the belligerents to state their peace terms belgium replied in a supplementary note and it is likely she will make a separate reply to the pope as well russia probably will be compelled to reply separately because of in italians open terrific offensive on front of 100 miles and capture 2,500 austrians in first day's battle * , ~ canadians make new ga ; ns around lens and fall of great . coal center is believed \ matter of days i t ondon aug 20 three allied * nations the fren !>. fhe ital '**-* ians and the english co-or ! dinated their forces in a stupendous j drive against the teutonic position i to-day fourteen thousand six hun i dred teutons have been captured in battles at verdun the french struck on a fifteen-mile front a blow described â€¢ as at once stupendous and tragic both summits of dead man's hill won by the crown prince at the sac rifice of countless lives fell into the hands of general petain 4,000 prisoners captured by french many other positions were also taken together with 4,000 unwounded prisoners general cadorna's troops delivered a tremendous drive agains ti.e aus trians on a hundred-mile front from \ plavati to the sea the capture of 7,600 prisoners with the italians pressing on is announced the british and canadians struck northwest of lens that city ia nearly surrounded and its fall is im minent in flanders more than 3,000 ger mans have been captured by general haig in the last seventy-two hours general petain completely turned the tables on the german crowu prince avocourt and corbeaux j woods are captured some of the coveted objectives on the left bank of the meuse that fell into french hands are avocourt wood corbeaux od and riumieraa on the right bank thev captured ta lon ridge champneuvllle hill 1*4 mormont farm and hill 240 also they penetrated to strategic positions in the bois de pusz and the bois d chaune a striking feature of the attack which followed a tremendous shell fire for a week from large parks of the heaviest french artillery was th employment of the air service as a definite arm of offense armed with machine guns the aviators flew low and directed a galling fire at masse _ of german troops as they moved fop ward to the support of the front lines airmen demoralize germans from rear the work of the airmen as an at tacking force was brilliantly success ful in addition to demoralizing tho german rear they proved later of i portant service in helping the infan try to repulse counter attacks 4 incidentally they brought low eleven german airplanes in the thic â€¢ continued on 2d page 7th column ttt â€” : â€” i^r-z â€” trzz â€” continued on 4th page 2d column j r ) ( )' s read r~j motor car bargains in the ex aminer want ad columns and you'll experience no trouble in setting the high-grade car you *â€”" want at the price you can af _ ' ~~"~ ford to pay , good pay }^ nÂ»nd steady employment are of â– â€” > fered you to-day through help wanted column in the exam uiner's classified section tu.a to the want ad pages now and __ select at once the place thai < , suits you and your ability too